13/38 But what I'm feared is that he'll not be in time. As you say, it's the Sabbath day, and the police are terrible slow. Now any moment that brig may be here, and the trouble will start. I'm wanting to save the Princess, but I'm wanting too to give these blagyirds the roughest handling they ever got in their lives. We're far ower few to put up a fight, and we want every man you've got about this place to hold the fort till the police come." Sir Archibald looked upon the earnest flushed face of Dickson with admiration. |